Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in the South East

Infrastructure Engineer
England > South East

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in the South East is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 89 168 205
Rank change year-on-year +79 +37 -90
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 484 275 356
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 2.84% 1.94% 1.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.01% 2.15% 1.82%
Number of salaries quoted 442 202 257
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,400 £32,400
25th Percentile £42,125 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £63,750 £63,625 £70,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - +5.82%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the South East with a recognized job title 16,055 12,785 19,557
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.06% 90.25% 96.43%
Number of salaries quoted 11,471 8,062 12,402
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £52,550 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.57% +1.33% +9.09%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings that featured Infrastructure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the South East

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the South East.

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the South East

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in the South East

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer within the South East region over the 6 months to 23 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Thames Valley +67 175 £50,000 - 16
Hampshire +23 134 £48,500 -3.00% 19
Surrey +49 84 £55,000 +5.77% 6
Berkshire +44 69 £52,550 -4.45% 2
Oxfordshire +43 59 £50,000 +17.65% 8
Buckinghamshire -4 47 £42,500 -15.00% 6
Kent -1 46 £38,500 -9.41% 7
East Sussex +32 29 £52,500 +16.67% 7
West Sussex +22 22 £67,500 +64.63%
Sussex - 6 £65,000 - 2
Infrastructure Engineer
England

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 23 May 2024, Infrastructure Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South East region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 476 (98.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 250 (51.65%) Windows
3 218 (45.04%) VMware
4 180 (37.19%) Azure
5 170 (35.12%) Active Directory
6 163 (33.68%) Microsoft
7 141 (29.13%) Microsoft 365
8 138 (28.51%) Windows Server
9 125 (25.83%) Linux
10 120 (24.79%) VMware Infrastructure
11 115 (23.76%) Firewall
12 108 (22.31%) PowerShell
13 100 (20.66%) Security Cleared
14 90 (18.60%) Social Skills
14 90 (18.60%) DNS
15 84 (17.36%) Problem-Solving
16 72 (14.88%) Data Centre
17 68 (14.05%) Degree
18 66 (13.64%) SC Cleared
18 66 (13.64%) Cisco
19 65 (13.43%) ITIL
19 65 (13.43%) Windows Server 2016
20 62 (12.81%) Hyper-V
21 58 (11.98%) AWS
22 56 (11.57%) DV Cleared
23 52 (10.74%) WAN
23 52 (10.74%) DevOps
24 50 (10.33%) Windows 10
24 50 (10.33%) vCenter Server
24 50 (10.33%) SCCM

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 39 (8.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 25 (5.17%) SharePoint
3 18 (3.72%) IIS
4 4 (0.83%) WordPress
5 1 (0.21%) Apache
5 1 (0.21%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (2.07%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.62%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.41%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.21%) PTC Creo
4 1 (0.21%) SOLIDWORKS
Cloud Services
1 180 (37.19%) Azure
2 141 (29.13%) Microsoft 365
3 58 (11.98%) AWS
4 32 (6.61%) IaaS
5 18 (3.72%) Entra ID
5 18 (3.72%) Nutanix
6 17 (3.51%) OneDrive
7 14 (2.89%) Amazon EC2
7 14 (2.89%) Amazon S3
7 14 (2.89%) SaaS
8 13 (2.69%) AWS CloudFormation
8 13 (2.69%) OCI
8 13 (2.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 12 (2.48%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (2.48%) CloudFront
9 12 (2.48%) Route 53
9 12 (2.48%) Serverless
10 10 (2.07%) GitHub
11 9 (1.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 8 (1.65%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 115 (23.76%) Firewall
2 90 (18.60%) DNS
3 52 (10.74%) WAN
4 49 (10.12%) LAN
5 47 (9.71%) VPN
6 46 (9.50%) DHCP
7 45 (9.30%) SAN
8 35 (7.23%) Wi-Fi
9 26 (5.37%) Wireless
10 18 (3.72%) TCP/IP
11 17 (3.51%) 5G
12 16 (3.31%) MPLS
13 13 (2.69%) BGP
13 13 (2.69%) Internet
14 12 (2.48%) VLAN
15 11 (2.27%) HTTP
15 11 (2.27%) iSCSI
15 11 (2.27%) SMTP
16 10 (2.07%) NAS
16 10 (2.07%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (5.99%) SQL Server
2 14 (2.89%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (2.27%) MySQL
4 4 (0.83%) DB2
5 1 (0.21%) MariaDB
5 1 (0.21%) Power BI
5 1 (0.21%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 16 (3.31%) JIRA
2 13 (2.69%) Git
2 13 (2.69%) Jenkins
3 10 (2.07%) Trac
4 2 (0.41%) GitLab
5 1 (0.21%) Chocolatey
General
1 90 (18.60%) Social Skills
2 41 (8.47%) Finance
3 22 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (3.93%) Telecoms
5 17 (3.51%) Documentation Skills
6 11 (2.27%) Advertising
7 6 (1.24%) Games
8 5 (1.03%) Financial Institution
8 5 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (1.03%) Public Sector
8 5 (1.03%) Retail
9 4 (0.83%) Law
10 3 (0.62%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.41%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.21%) Legal
12 1 (0.21%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.21%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (2.27%) Web Services
2 4 (0.83%) LAMP
3 2 (0.41%) CSS
3 2 (0.41%) JSON
3 2 (0.41%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (0.41%) YAML
4 1 (0.21%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.21%) Flash
4 1 (0.21%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 72 (14.88%) Data Centre
2 39 (8.06%) Driving Licence
3 21 (4.34%) IoT
4 15 (3.10%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (2.69%) PKI
6 12 (2.48%) Clustering
7 8 (1.65%) Management Information System
8 7 (1.45%) Cyber Security Posture
8 7 (1.45%) Linux Command Line
8 7 (1.45%) Security Posture
9 5 (1.03%) Public Cloud
10 4 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (0.83%) Replication
11 3 (0.62%) EMC VNX
12 2 (0.41%) Enterprise Storage
12 2 (0.41%) Security Operations Centre
12 2 (0.41%) Virtual Team
13 1 (0.21%) Enterprise Software
13 1 (0.21%) NHS
13 1 (0.21%) VAX
Operating Systems
1 250 (51.65%) Windows
2 138 (28.51%) Windows Server
3 125 (25.83%) Linux
4 65 (13.43%) Windows Server 2016
5 50 (10.33%) Windows 10
6 42 (8.68%) Windows Server 2012
7 39 (8.06%) Windows Server 2019
8 28 (5.79%) Ubuntu
9 18 (3.72%) CentOS
10 17 (3.51%) Windows 7
11 14 (2.89%) Android
11 14 (2.89%) Apple iOS
12 12 (2.48%) Windows XP
13 6 (1.24%) VMS
14 5 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 4 (0.83%) Windows Server 2003
16 3 (0.62%) Rocky
16 3 (0.62%) Windows NT
17 1 (0.21%) Data ONTAP
17 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 476 (98.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 84 (17.36%) Problem-Solving
3 65 (13.43%) ITIL
4 52 (10.74%) DevOps
5 43 (8.88%) Disaster Recovery
6 38 (7.85%) Cybersecurity
7 36 (7.44%) Storage Management
8 31 (6.40%) Decision-Making
9 27 (5.58%) Customer Service
10 26 (5.37%) Service Delivery
11 25 (5.17%) Change Management
11 25 (5.17%) Problem Management
11 25 (5.17%) Project Management
12 23 (4.75%) Infrastructure as Code
13 21 (4.34%) Technical Leadership
14 19 (3.93%) Computer Science
14 19 (3.93%) Virtual Infrastructure
15 18 (3.72%) Agile
15 18 (3.72%) Task Automation
16 17 (3.51%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 108 (22.31%) PowerShell
2 36 (7.44%) Python
3 26 (5.37%) Bash
4 14 (2.89%) Perl
5 11 (2.27%) ActionScript
5 11 (2.27%) VB
6 10 (2.07%) SQL
7 3 (0.62%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.21%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 100 (20.66%) Security Cleared
2 68 (14.05%) Degree
3 66 (13.64%) SC Cleared
4 56 (11.57%) DV Cleared
5 21 (4.34%) CCNA
5 21 (4.34%) Cisco Certification
6 19 (3.93%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (2.69%) AWS Certification
7 13 (2.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 12 (2.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 12 (2.48%) CCNP
9 11 (2.27%) HNC
10 6 (1.24%) ITIL Certification
10 6 (1.24%) MCP
11 4 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 3 (0.62%) Azure Certification
12 3 (0.62%) MCSE
13 1 (0.21%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 1 (0.21%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (5.58%) SLA
2 14 (2.89%) Data Quality
3 10 (2.07%) Cyber Essentials
4 7 (1.45%) GDPR
5 3 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.41%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.41%) QA
7 1 (0.21%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 170 (35.12%) Active Directory
2 120 (24.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 62 (12.81%) Hyper-V
4 46 (9.50%) vSphere
5 41 (8.47%) VMware ESXi
6 36 (7.44%) Docker
7 35 (7.23%) Virtual Machines
8 12 (2.48%) XenApp
9 11 (2.27%) NFS
9 11 (2.27%) OpenSSH
9 11 (2.27%) pfSense
10 6 (1.24%) Firmware
11 5 (1.03%) VMware Server
12 4 (0.83%) KVM
13 3 (0.62%) Virtual Desktop
14 2 (0.41%) QEMU
14 2 (0.41%) Xen
Systems Management
1 50 (10.33%) SCCM
1 50 (10.33%) vCenter Server
2 38 (7.85%) Kubernetes
3 31 (6.40%) WSUS
4 24 (4.96%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (4.34%) Terraform
6 19 (3.93%) EMC NetWorker
6 19 (3.93%) SCOM
7 17 (3.51%) Ansible
8 16 (3.31%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 16 (3.31%) SCDPM
9 13 (2.69%) NetBackup
10 12 (2.48%) FortiGate
10 12 (2.48%) Grafana
11 11 (2.27%) IBM BigFix
11 11 (2.27%) PowerCLI
12 10 (2.07%) ZABBIX
13 7 (1.45%) Nagios
14 6 (1.24%) Nessus
15 5 (1.03%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 218 (45.04%) VMware
2 163 (33.68%) Microsoft
3 66 (13.64%) Cisco
4 43 (8.88%) Veeam
5 38 (7.85%) HP
6 34 (7.02%) Aruba
7 28 (5.79%) Juniper
8 27 (5.58%) Palo Alto
9 26 (5.37%) Citrix
10 23 (4.75%) Dell
11 21 (4.34%) EMC
11 21 (4.34%) Red Hat
12 19 (3.93%) Oracle
13 18 (3.72%) Extreme Networks
13 18 (3.72%) Fortinet
14 17 (3.51%) 3PAR
15 13 (2.69%) IBM
16 12 (2.48%) Symantec
17 11 (2.27%) McAfee
18 10 (2.07%) Darktrace